Two fires scorch land but cause no damage to structures

A vegetation fire that began around 3:40 p.m. Thursday burned about 5 acres near Edward Drive in Palermo. Two trailers that were in the process of being demolished were completely destroyed by the blaze, but no standing structures were damaged and no one was injured.

"If we had a north wind, it would have been a different story," Cal Fire-Butte County Battalion Chief Tony Brownell said.

Firefighters normally wouldn't have had air support in the area, but Brownell said because the blaze threatened a State Responsibility Area just east of Upper Palermo Road and less than a mile away, the helicopter and a spotter plane were called in.

Also on Thursday, firefighters with the Oroville Fire Department work to control a wildland fire off of Nelson Avenue near the Nelson Avenue Bridge in Oroville that began around 6:05 p.m. The flames scorched about 12 acres of grassland but didn't damage any homes or cause injuries.